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Needs a subtitle: "Among our users which mostly come from the enterprise world."
(full article here : http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/03/28/top-10-most-popular-prog...)
"Perhaps you should fix those mistakes in your "% Change" column... Looks like some rows show a decrease when there is an increase (for example C in 2012 is 4.9 and 4.10 in 2013, and % change here is -16% ...)."
I have to remember to add "What's the % change between 4.9 and 4.10?" to my list of tech interview questions.
Needs a subtitle: "Among our users which mostly come from the enterprise world."
What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards "enterprise" users wouldn't we expect to see java, C# and C++ getting boosts rather than python?
It's just a heavily biased article is all. We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.
Objective-C is less popular than Haskell? Java is less popular than Python? Doesn't pass the smell test: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cpython%2Cobjective-...
Ascending: Python, JS, Ruby, C#, Scala, ObjC, Cloj, and barely C++ and C
Declining: Java, PHP, Perl
TCL is ascending! 0.02% -> 0.03%. :)
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What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards "enterprise" users wouldn't we expect to see java, C# and C++ getting boosts rather than python?
Well, I'd argue that Python specifically has a substantial userbase from the mathematics, statistics and econometric world that rarely bleeds over to other languages, and those people tend to exist more densely in larger organizations. It's just a heavily biased article is all. We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.
You'd lose that bet. Here are two HN polls.
http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/5-ways-to-tell-which-program...
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What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards "enterprise" users wouldn't we expect to see java, C# and C++ getting boosts rather than python?
Well, I'd argue that Python specifically has a substantial userbase from the mathematics, statistics and econometric world that rarely bleeds over to other languages, and those people tend to exist more densely in larger organizations. It's just a heavily biased article is all. We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.
Yes, but as I said I don't see any indication that the bias is towards "enterprise" at all. Python's use in statistics and related fields is quite small compared to its competition in those areas, which don't even show up. So it seems very unreasonable to suggest that is what is giving python a hugely inflated figure just to maintain the notion that there is an "enterprise" bias.
